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* Covers the entire open source Web platform known as LAMP, which
includes Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, the basis for many dynamic
data-driven Web sites
* Seven convenient minibooks provide easy reference on open source
and team development, working with Linux and Apache, automating Web
sites with Perl, developing front-end applications with Tcl/TK,
creating dynamic Web pages with PHP, accessing Web databases with
MySQL, and processing Web files with regular expressions
* Includes valuable, hard-to-find coverage of collaboration, file
sharing, and version control with CVS
* PHP is running on over nine million sites, with an average
increase of 6.5 percent monthly over the past two years; Apache Web
servers handle seventy percent of Web content